> -----Original Message----- > From: Leo Bicknell [mailto:bickn...@ufp.org] > Sent: 19 May 2011 14:10 > To: nanog > Subject: Re: Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's > possible with today's technology. > > In a message written on Wed, May 18, 2011 at 09:52:22PM -0500, Brett > Frankenberger wrote: > > That will work. Of course, the CPU usage will be overwhelming -- > > longer than the age of the universe to do a large file -- but, > > theoretically, with enough CPU power, it will work. > > You have a different definition of "work" than I do. If it can't > finish before the universe ends I don't think it works. :)
You obviously do not read enough SciFi. By then (whenever then is) sub picoseconds optical quantum computers will be able to solve such problems before you knew they were problems ;-) -- Leigh Porter ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
